Top 55 Rut Quotes

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

I’m in a BMW rut. My last three cars have been BMW 3-Series.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It’s so easy to get into that rut of production.

Any time you’re stepping out on a limb as an artist, it’s scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you’re reaching a lot of people, the masses, it’s easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you’re making a lot of money and you know there’s a formula, it’s easy to stay in that rut.

New roads; new ruts.

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

The only way independent cinema can come out of its own rut is by learning to be more consistent. An indie filmmaker should feel responsible for others as well.

I don’t want to get in a one-character rut.

Being stuck in a rut can kill your creativity, stress you out, and zap your productivity. Doing the same thing over and over again causes your days to blend together.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave – with both ends kicked out.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it’s amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, ‘This is it; my life is a train wreck.’ And then you bounce back again.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Kids don’t have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They’re born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

Your mind wants to keep you in that rut, doing the same weight, same reps, and same exercises, never moving forward. But your body doesn’t want to be stagnant.

A lot of people don’t know how to pull themselves out of their rut and how to change realities. In technology, you routinely have an ‘upgrade’ for your phones and computers. Our personal inner software needs upgrading too.

There’s certain points in the season – I think players go through it and teams go through it – where you just have stretches and you’re stuck in a rut or you feel like nothing’s going right. You just got to keep grinding, and eventually it’ll turn.

It’s very easy to fall into a rut where you’re just making things that you don’t believe in for other people.

I think what’s really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, ‘We know it works! We’ll use that old chestnut.’

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they’re always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

If you feel like you’re getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

I’ve lived an amazing life. There’s no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don’t want to be stuck in the rut? Then don’t look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner’s right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.

You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing – especially with pop music.

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn’t have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There’s a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience.

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don’t like a rut.

The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

It’s easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.

The worst part about getting in a rut in football is the weeks are so long.

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don’t necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years… I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Try to walk into the gym with the mindset that you’re going to do a different thing every day. Whether that means a new exercise, a new order for your routine, a new pace, or more resistance, your body will help you get out of that rut.

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I’ll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I’ll grow complacent.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you’re the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.

I visited those friends who’d just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don’t, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

I never believed in the institution of marriage, because ever since I was young, I had only seen marriages fall apart, or remain stuck in a rut.

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn’t it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

At those times I got into… I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life – it’s all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it’s hard to get out of that because I’m working alone in the studio.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer – you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don’t look in other directions.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

I was at rock bottom for a year and a half – and the people who got me out of my rut were my fans.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

That’s the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

Routines can be a rut.

Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

There’s a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

I stay out of typecasting ruts.